Maisie Williams Played 'Practical Magic 2' Role as Lesbian — SkimNews
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- Maisie Williams told Gay Times she played Antonia Owens as a 'sapphic icon' across 'a lot of different edits' and script versions, noting Antonia's perspective lent scenes about Gideon a different tone.
- The Susanne Bier-directed sequel, scripted by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett and Kelly Marcel, drops Antonia's lesbian identity from Hoffman's 2021 novel 'The Book of Magic.'
- In the source novel, Antonia has a love interest named Ariel—a lawyer who helps unravel the family curse—and is pregnant with her best friend's baby.
- Practical Magic 2 follows Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) chasing Sally's daughter Kylie (Joey King) to England to save Kylie's comatose boyfriend Gideon (Xolo Maridueña).
- Sandra Bullock told Vanity Fair a third film is possible: 'We'll do a number three if this takes off. And we'll pass the torch to the girls.'
Why it matters: For fans of Hoffman's novel, the omission of Antonia's queer romance and pregnancy represents a significant adaptation cut—one Williams chose to honor internally even when the script didn't require it. Bullock's tease of a trilogy, with the torch passed to the next generation of Owens women, leaves the door open for Antonia's full storyline to reach the screen.
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